December 20, 1918

On the conclusion 
of Rykov and Nevsky,
concerning Shelomovich's project.

(which finds that "the contact commission for locomotive repair" under the Supreme Council of the National Economy should be reorganized as a commission for repair and production of all types of transport apparatus.)

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# INSTRUCTION TO SECRETARY
[December 23, 1918]

Reply to
Vladimirov.

I have already this morning come to an agreement with Nevsky regarding the adoption of the most energetic measures and have signed an order in the name of the Council of Defense. I am transmitting your communication to Nevsky by telephone.

Lenin,

Transmit to Nevsky by telephone both Vladimirov's communication and my reply.

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**EDITORIAL NOTES:**

1 Lenin had in mind a draft certification from the Supreme Council of the National Economy and the People's Commissariat of Transport concerning the appointment of A. N. Shelomovich (member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Transport) as extraordinary commissioner of transport with the obligation to "urgently bring production and, in particular, the repair of transport apparatus to the proper level." Nevsky and Rykov took a negative view of issuing such a mandate to Shelomovich. On the reply notes written by Nevsky and Rykov on a separate sheet, Lenin made the notation: "# archive."

1 M. K. Vladimirov (extraordinary military commissar of railways of the Southern Front) in a telegram to Lenin requested, in connection with a three-day snowstorm on the southern Front, which caused a halt in supplies, that an order be issued for the dispatch of oil-burning locomotives and fuel to the Southeastern railway.